School: Cill Chonaill (Cailíní)

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   phone wireless, out of wood, and spools and of wheels of a clock.
   He made a bicycle and cycled across Calla lake in one hour without getting out of the water.
   He made a boat of rushes, and he oared it with shovels, and he used to row it himself.
   He made a granephone,and he put the tongue of a fox in it, and he made a horn of galvanized, and it can be heard two miles around.
   John Kelly Liscune can throw a hundred weight over his head three times with his little finger without stopping.
   Past Murphy Curragh can tell six stories every hour, and he can sing songs for two hours every night.
   Tom Creaton, Curragh can carry twenty sods of turf in a barrow in his teeth eighteen yards without leaving it down.
   There was a man living in Ballmacward named "Máirtín bán", he was supposed

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Una Egan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Callow, Co. Galway